Buildings Quotes · Page 3

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

— Nikki Giovanni

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“village of stores, homes, and other buildings where”

— Jana Riess

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

— Ekta Kapoor

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

— Thom Mayne

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

— Richard Painter

“Buildings are not very good at remembering the people who once occupied them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

— Stephen Gardiner

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

— Arthur Erickson

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.

— Osama bin Laden

“Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is…

— Miguel McKelvey

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

— Richard Rogers

Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we've found that those are the sort…

— Miguel McKelvey

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

— Ma Yansong

And imagine where we'd be today if President Franklin Roosevelt had owned apartment buildings in Frankfurt and Berlin. You know, some of…

— Richard Painter

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal…

— Christo

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be…

— Peter Zumthor

Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn't all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly…

— Michael J. Knowles

One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then…

— Joseph Rykwert

Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need…

— Magnus Larsson

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all…

— David Chipperfield

It was when '21' came out. I was in Los Angeles and my face was everywhere: on buses, on posters, on the…

— Jim Sturgess

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt…

— Thomas Heatherwick

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

— Tadao Ando

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

— Meg White

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

— Hugh MacDiarmid

I watched the buildings go down on 9/11. I saw how much that impacted our country.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together.

— Adam Neumann

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

— Leonard Lauder

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

— Julia Morgan

Our historic buildings reflect our unique past.

— Marty Walsh

When I was five-years-old I was jumping off two-story buildings.

— Garrett McNamara

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

— Minoru Yamasaki

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

— Nicholas Haslam

Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.

— Franklin Foer

“Careful minds build durable buildings; careless minds build rotten buildings!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Our beautiful old buildings tell us so much about who we are.

— George Clarke

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

— Anonymous